[Sca-cooks] Why a feastocrat might get picked over other

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

Sometimes, the cook and event steward create an event and propose it.
 Sometimes the event steward asks someone to cook for the established
event.  Sometimes a cooks says they have a feast idea, if anyone is looking
for a cook.

No rules.

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, morgana wrote:

> > On 12/11/2013 4:25 p.m., Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >>
> >> How do other groups select who will be cooking the feast and the menu?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The event steward asks someone to cook.  This is repeated until someone
> says
> > 'yes'.
> >
> > The steward may make some modest requests of the cook (such as "I'd
> really
> > like to have something Elizabethan" or "can we have white
> > pies?")-- otherwise, the cook sets the menu.
> >
> > Antonia
>
> In our small barony, the reins of head cooks has passed through a limited
> number of hands over the years, but the process remains pretty much the
> same. The current people who are most interested in cooking and being head
> cooks kick some ideas around, and present one to the general populace
> informally (fighter practice, business meetings, etc) and if no one runs
> screaming from the idea, the cooks continue planning. At that point they
> (usually the official head cook and 2-3 other partners) have control of the
> menu as long as they don't go crazy with expensive ingredients. We don't
> expect to make money on this feast, and aim for breaking even.
>
> We have one major feast annually in October, and the cookbook or culture
> for the next feast is usually chosen by January or February. We like to eat
> good period food, and the baronial elders know it takes time to test
> recipes, etc., so we encourage early decisions, and our newcomers don't
> know any different (G). We'd have more feasts, but we don't want to burn
> out our cooks.
>
>
> Morgana yr Oerfa, retired head cook
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